Gourmet Pizza Sauce

The basic sauce for all your gourmet pizzas

Use this tomato sauce on your best pizzas recipes. Pizza sauce should be kept basic, different from pasta sauces, there’s no onion, no basil etc. only the basic required ingredients. You will add those other ingredients freshly in your pizza toppings later.

Ingredients

4 Cloves of garlic

80 ml - 1/3 cup olive oil

Handful of fresh oregano or 2 tbsp of dried

400g - 14oz can of whole peeled tomatoes

Steps

Step 1

Peel Garlic.

Step 2

To a large pan on heat, add the olive oil.

Step 3

Add the grated garlic. (Do not brown, only stew lightly).

Step 4

Add the oregano.

Step 5

Open can and blend the tomatoes (use blender).

Step 6

Add the tomato pulp.

Step 7

Season with salt and pepper.

Step 8

Cook only a few minutes.

Little Tips

If tomatoes aren't vine ripened, you may need to add a little sugar.
You can also use Passata (tomato purée) instead of canned tomatoes.
This is a basic sauce, all other ingredients such as basil, onion, etc. should be added to pizza base, not the sauce.